For those of you who have hunted there,what area of Namibia has the flatter, brushier[bushveld] terrain? If you used Windhoek as the center, which direction NE?

Mad Dog

I have only hunted the Southeast, in the Kalahari region, and it looks like this:

I have hunted south and west and north. I found the south around Keetmanshoop to be flater like the above picture. the area around Maltahohe to be more hilly. Up north west of Etosha much more hilly and cragy.

Sorta like hunting Arizona, Texas, Wyoming, Montana,or Colorado in one sense, terrain and vegetation varies greatly. I hunted the Waterburg plateau and could not understand why I was having some breathing difficulties after chasing a few animals on foot for some distance. I asked my PH what the altitude was and he informed me 2200 meters. Very rugged canyons and hills to very flat plains to riverine in the Caprivi. Great country, I loved hunting there and hope to return someday.

Northeast of Windhoek... North of Gobabis about a two to three hour drive is heavy bush. A 50 yard shot would be extremely long. I shot my first kudu there. The ground is flat and sand with some scattered grass and lots of short trees. I think it was near Otjinene. You can find this on google maps. Namibia has some of the most diverse terrain.
Aaron

It varies, these are taken east of Windhoek:

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As has been stated you can find just bout any different terrain type you want in Namibia. In the south there are great red sand deserts. To the east there are some mountainous areas with deep gullies and moderately high peeks.To the northeast there is some fairly thick brush country and in the Caprivi there is Riverine bush and some marsh/swamp areas.

A little something for everybody!

Thanks boys, I appreciate it.

Mad dog

For my money, Namibia is the best deal going. You can find just about any situation you like at a reasonable price. I just returned from there, hunted Kudu, Zebra and Warthog in the Khomas Hockland, mountains and rugged, for 6 days. The Kalihari for 7 days, flat desert and dunes and long shots. Two weeks of hunting, 18 animals, some gold medal for a total cost of less the $10,000. This includes air fare. My hats off to Kalihari Hunting Safari's......Tom

Hunted from Mariental in the South to Damaraland about 6 hours from Windhoek and Opouwa area on the Angolan border. A little bit of everything. Saw even more from the air and I didnt touch even a fraction of it. Like others have said pretty much anything you want.

About 125 kms northeast of Windhoek, if you can get up on any elevation and look out over the veld, the terrain and vegetation looks like this:




On an old pre-WWI Imperial German heliograph post


Looking northeastward over the Kalahari in the direction of Botswana

To the South of Windhoek, You will find open flat areas and areas with huge mountains, very little bush.To the west of Windhoek you get the Khomas Hochland which is mountains and natural habitat to the mountain Zebras. To the North West of Windhoek you get my area where you have bush a lot of dry river beds ans some small kopje's and you also get the Erongo Mountains where there also is Mountain Zebra's, Klipspringer's, Dik-Dik free roaming. When you head up North East you get very very thick bush and you get the natural free roaming area for Eland. Not much mountains closer to Otjwarongo but when you go past Otavi further up North you'll start to get some Mountains. If you go up further North West in the direction of Outjo you'll get also thick bush and mountains and further from there then you get to the Kamanjab area where you have more mountains, hills and not so thick bush, if you head even further North West then you go into the consession area of Damaraland, falt open spaces and also Huge mountains. If're headed way up North east you'll be heading in the direction of Bushmanland, Red Kalahari sand and less bush. East of Windhoek you'll be heading to Gobabis where you'll also find a more faltter and bushy area, parts of that area also have red kalahari sand dunes.

I think one of the things you must look at is the species that you're interested in where you're more likely to find it. It also depends on person to person, some people hunt in the Gobabis area but they have to drive to the erongo moauntains for Klipspringer, Dik-Dik and Mountain Zebra, it's quite a distance to travel and some hunters like to travel that far and see different areas and some don't and prefer to hunt one ranch, it's all personal preference and time offcourse, time can be a big issue.

I hope this helps a bit.

Roy

namibia hunter, very nice pics.

Roy, thanks for the feedback. Very much appreciated.

Mad Dog

You know, this thread breaks my heart. I have hunted Namibia each of the last 3 years. I won't be able to do it this year and I am very depressed. Next year for sure, and it will again be the north central highlands, just south of Etosha, where one can find any type of terrain one wants.